Travel
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Marrakesh Day 2
On our second day in Marrakesh we took a tour to the Ourika Valley about 2 hours from Marrakesh. It started out very foggy but turned into a beautiful day. The town was a Berber village. We had to walk… Continue reading
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The Girls!
I knew Peggy only causally from the Boomer Babes. Traveling with anyone for the first time is always a risk. Before this Morocco trip even started I booked 2 more trips with her, Egypt and Turkey. Happily we are very… Continue reading
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Hotel Pictures
We stayed in some pretty fabulous places during this vacation. The first one was the Villa Mandarine in Rabat. Beautiful grounds and flowers. We next moved to the Riad Salem Fes in Fes, Morocco. This was by far my favorite.… Continue reading
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Food Pictures
Basically the food was very good but everything required salt. They prepared vegetarian meals for me and two other people on the trip. I only cheated twice eating a lamb shank and grilled calamari. Continue reading
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Home Hosted Dinner
A very important part of this tour, in addition to the history of the area, is to teach you how the locals live. In that spirit we went to the home of Layla and her daughter who live in an… Continue reading
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Marrakesh Day 1
As expected, Marrakesh is a very spectacular place. It is the tourism capital of Morocco and a very fun place. Our hotel was very modern and elegant. The market was quite an experience but very different from day to night.… Continue reading
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On The Road To Marrakesh Via The Todra Gorge
We left Merzouga and the Sahara Desert we drove to the Todra Gorges that are a series of gorges or canyons in the High Atlas Mountains. The scenery was spectacular and was very reminiscent of Zion National Park in Arizona.… Continue reading
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One Hump or Two
I had ridden a camel in Dubai with the YaYa’s so I was more prepared than most. Everyone had their own camel and there were only 2 camels to each driver so it made for lots of photo opportunities. We… Continue reading
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Sleeping In the Sand Dunes
We left our hotel about 3:00 PM in 4x4s for the 2 1/2 hour ride through the Sahara to our camp. It was a long bumpy ride with several stops. Driving in the sand reminded me of driving in a… Continue reading
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On the Way To the Desert
On our way to to the Sahara we stopped at a fossil factory to learn how they cut and polish to reveal the beautiful fossils in them. The long narrow fossils are called squid. From the fossil factory we traveled… Continue reading
